White Papers & Analysis

This guide focuses on Infrastructure Modernization, providing a framework based off the extensive experience and insight of Skytap’s professional services team, which helps enterprises, analyze, migrate and run complex, business-critical applications in Skytap Cloud.

This report provides a fresh perspective on the challenges, motivations, and opportunities driving today’s enterprise technology strategy. The study features a wide range of interesting data points that contradict common cloud generalizations, alongside sharp analysis and end user commentary.

Following our introductory Tips & Considerations for Containers paper, which introduces the concepts and considerations associated with containers, this practical guide will address how you can use Skytap Cloud and Containers together to accelerate modernization for your traditional applications.

This document will provide an overview of containers, how they can be applied when modernizing traditional applications and the considerations and benefits of using containers as part of your modernization strategy.

This webinar discusses how you can make multi-cloud work for you and accelerate the modernization of your existing app portfolio with featured speaker Dave Bartoletti, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.

This eBook discusses the challenges that organizations face with how do they leverage the cloud for both new cloud native applications and traditional applications that were never imagined to run in the cloud.

Most of your core applications weren’t built for the cloud era. But they could do even more for your business if they made the leap. The question is: How? Watch this recorded webinar and learn how Skytap can help Optimize IT spend, boost business agility, and drive cloud innovation.

This paper provides an overview of licensing Oracle programs for AIX on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the Skytap Cloud. There is much confusion about Oracle licensing, especially in virtualized or Cloud environments.

Read this IDC “Expert ROI” Spotlight study to learn how a leading media company used Skytap Cloud to achieve a projected 793% ROI over three years and reduced time spent on regression testing by 90 percent.

This paper outlines how Skytap Classrooms can help streamline the process of creating and managing cloud-based Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT) labs.

In this paper, you’ll learn:

• How using the right technology can minimize technology-related disruptions and improve overall training success
• Things you can do to deliver effective training that serves both organizational goals as well as student learning objectives
• What to look for when choosing a technology vendor

Now there’s a path to the cloud for your traditional AIX applications. Skytap Cloud is the only public cloud that offers support for AIX workloads alongside applications running on x86 architectures.

In this paper, you’ll learn:

• How to identify cloud requirements for your AIX apps
• Considerations and best practices for migrating your AIX workloads to Skytap Cloud
• How to apply agile development processes to AIX apps once they’re in the cloud

This paper provides an overview of licensing Oracle programs on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the Skytap Cloud. There is much confusion about Oracle licensing, especially in virtualized or Cloud environments.

This white paper looks at the continuous delivery workflow that Skytap uses to produce entire environments that resemble the production platform and how this workflow has improved Skytap’s release velocity and reliability. It takes a deeper dive into how CI and CD are implemented with Skytap.

Cloud migration has exploded in popularity since General Electric’s (GE’s) flashy keynote at Amazon Web Service’s (AWS’s) re:Invent in September 2015. GE claims to be migrating all workloads not containing secret information. Enterprises are revisiting public cloud and exploring whether existing or systems-of-record applications have a place in that world. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals on this path should avoid a one-size-fits-all approach to outsourcing and migration plans, opting instead for an app-by-app assessment.